Slohové ohlasy v lidové architektuře jihočeských Blat ve fotodokumentaci sourozenců Chalupníčkových
Stylistic echoes in the folk architecture of South Bohemian Blat in the photo documentation of the Chalupníček siblings

Author(s): Dana Motyčková, Kateřina Sedlická
Subject(s): Cultural history, Photography, Architecture, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Source Material
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Photo-documentation; folk architecture; Southern Bohemia; analysis of styles;
Summary/Abstract: A large set of photographs by the architects Miroslav and Věra Chalupníček from 1940 became a basis for the concise analysis of construction styles in the region of Blata (moorland spread between Soběslav and Veselí nad Lužnicí towns). It is stored in archival collections at the Institute of Ethnology AS CR, v.v.i. For the first sketch of the issue of styles, a part of buildings (gable) has been chosen for the submitted contribution. This part was included into a system created based on a chronological analysis that proceeds on dates mentioned on the buildings. The adumbrated hypotheses about the morphology of gables at farmhouses in Blata are documented by photos. Because of the date of their origin – these photos captured even the oldest then preserved horizon of the original timbered housing with wooden folded slabs. The photos also captured masonry buildings with thatched roofs, documented – despite date inscriptions – by the oldest types of gables with distinctive Baroque Style, which later were shaped in the Empire Style and kept the tectonic character of the design. With the development of masonry buildings since the 1830s, the surviving Baroque and Classicistic styles passed to a new quality grasped and transformed by folk settings.

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